Haunted by ancient history

Posted Jan 8, 2015 20:12 UTC (Thu) by reubenhwk (guest, #75803)
In reply to: Haunted by ancient history by flussence
Parent article: Haunted by ancient history

I'm having trouble envisioning any use-case where somebody would need to know the speed of the processor... Why is anybody using bogomips in code anyway?

Haunted by ancient history

Posted Jan 9, 2015 11:52 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Lazy defaults for quality settings in a game? I'd think it'd be better to just run a series of renders and drop quality until you hit your target though.